The Other Black Bostonians
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Author |
: Violet M. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2006-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253112385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253112389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other Black Bostonians by : Violet M. Johnson
This study of Boston's West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. Describing their experience among Boston's American-born blacks and in the context of the city's immigrant history, the book charts new conceptual territory. The Other Black Bostonians explores the pre-migration background of the immigrants, work and housing, identity, culture and community, activism and social mobility. What emerges is a detailed picture of black immigrant life. Johnson's work makes a contribution to the study of the black diaspora as it charts the history of this first wave of Caribbean immigrants.
Author |
: James Oliver Horton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076002025042 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Bostonians by : James Oliver Horton
Updated and expanded in this revised edition to reflect twenty years of new research, when published in 1979 Black Bostonianswas the first comprehensive social history of an antebellum northern black community. The Hortons challenged the then widely held view that African Americans in the antebellum urban north were all trapped in "a culture of poverty." Exploring life in black Boston from the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, they combined quantitative and traditional historical methods to reveal the rich fabric of a thriving society, where people from all walks of life organized for mutual aid, survival, and social action, and which was a center of the antislavery movement. CONTENTS: Profile of Black Boston. Families and Households in Black Boston. Formal and Informal Organizations and Associations. The Community and the Church. Leaders and Community Activists. Segregation, Discrimination, and Community Resistance. The Integration of Abolition. The Fugitive and the Community. A Decade of Militancy.
Author |
: Zebulon Vance Miletsky |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2022-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469662787 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469662787 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Busing by : Zebulon Vance Miletsky
In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the "cradle of liberty." Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than many realize. A community of Black activists had fought segregated education since the origins of public schooling and racial inequality since the end of northern slavery. Before Busing tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. It reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle. And the book gives credit to the Black organizers, parents, and children who fought long and hard battles for justice that have been left out of the standard narratives of the civil rights movement. What emerges is a clear picture of the long and hard-fought campaigns to break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city—a fight that continues to this day.
Author |
: Lorraine Elena Roses |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 162534242X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781625342423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940 by : Lorraine Elena Roses
"Preface -- Introduction. A Veiled History -- 1. Where Is Black Boston? Geographies of Experience in the Cradle of Liberty, 1638-1900 -- 2. The Black Bostonian Elites: Color, Class, Culture, and Family, 1880-1920 -- 3. Gender and Culture: Black Women as Arts Organizers, 1917-1930 -- 4. Black Faces on the White Stage: Space and Race, 1925-1930 -- 5. Writing While Black: The Saturday Evening Quill, 1925-1930 -- 6. The Boston Players: Broadway Bound, 1930-1935 -- 7. The New Deal for Boston's Black Theatre: Four Golden Years, 1935-1939 -- Afterword. A Retrospective View of the Boston Renascence, 1920-1940.
Author |
: George A. Levesque |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 455 |
Release |
: 2018-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351180580 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351180584 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Boston by : George A. Levesque
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black life in urban America. Black culture Levesque argues was both more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally benevolent, sometimes hostile, frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.
Author |
: Robert C. Hayden |
Publisher |
: Boston Public Library |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105017523866 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis African-Americans in Boston by : Robert C. Hayden
A "must" introduction to significant African-American events & people in Massachusetts where so much American history began. The first slaves arrived in Boston in 1638; the first Black gave his life in the Boston Massacre. Entries are dramatic bullet-style cameos set off by more than 100 photographs. Arranged chronologically within a dozen categories--Science, Religion, Government, Creative Arts, among them--the elegantly designed paperback offers instant identification of names & invites follow up research--a catalyst "to find out more." Among the entries: a high school student wins ten dollars in gold for her essay on the "Evils of Intemperance"; a physician fights for the right to deliver babies at the city hospital; Blacks unite in protest against the film BIRTH OF A NATION; a Boston mechanic invents a diving suit & a dentist invents a golf tee. The BOSTON GLOBE calls it a book that explores the "rich heritage & legacy of leaders who lived here but had an impact upon all America--including Frederick Douglass, William DuBois, Phillis Wheatley, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." An executive of Bank of Boston, which funded the publication, calls it "a book about dreams." And the dreams came true. Available through Publisher's Sales Office--666 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, Tele-(617)-536-5400. xt 346.
Author |
: Richard Brent Turner |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2021-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479871032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479871036 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soundtrack to a Movement by : Richard Brent Turner
Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation Amid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X’s emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp’s sentiment, recognizing that Coltrane’s music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached. Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared—Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination—were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a Black Atlantic “cool” that shaped both Black religion and jazz styles. Soundtrack to a Movement demonstrates how by expressing their values through the rejection of systemic racism, the construction of Black notions of masculinity and femininity, and the development of an African American religious internationalism, both jazz musicians and Black Muslims engaged with a global Black consciousness and interconnected resistance movements in the African diaspora and Africa.
Author |
: Hilary J. Moss |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2010-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226542515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226542513 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Schooling Citizens by : Hilary J. Moss
While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion. Through the comparative lenses of these three cities, she shows why opposition erupted where it did across the United States during the same period that gave rise to public education. As common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. This link between school and American identity, Moss argues, increased white hostility to black education at the same time that it spurred African Americans to demand public schooling as a means of securing status as full and equal members of society. Shedding new light on the efforts of black Americans to learn independently in the face of white attempts to withhold opportunity, Schooling Citizens narrates a previously untold chapter in the thorny history of America’s educational inequality.
Author |
: J. Anthony Lukas |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 688 |
Release |
: 2012-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307823755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030782375X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Common Ground by : J. Anthony Lukas
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Author |
: George A. Levesque |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 558 |
Release |
: 2018-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351180597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351180592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Boston by : George A. Levesque
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black life in urban America. Black culture Levesque argues was both more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally benevolent, sometimes hostile, frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.